DACTILOSCOPIA ROSA
Naves Matadero
Madrid, Spain, 2017
Naves Matadero presents Dactiloscopia Rosa (Pink Dactyloscopy), a site-specific installation specially designed for Nave 11 by artist Marco Canevacci of the Plastique Fantastique group, famous for his gigantic inflatable sculptures. The installation represents a gigantic latex hand that visitors can enter to see an exhibition on the history of queer fanzines in Spain. At the end of each finger, each nail becomes a screen onto which a selection of video art pieces on queer topics is projected. Both the exhibition and the screenings are curated by the Centre of Avantgarde Arts Museum La Neomudéjar.
DACTILOSCOPIA ROSA is a playful installation consisting of a vault and five sleeve-like inlets that puts visitors in the position of depth explorers, curiously examining this confusing, naive, and eccentric ambience. Each protrusion – soon recognised as a finger or thumb – ends with a projection surface hosting videos dealing with sexuality and the queer scene. The pink colour – provocative, toxic, and sensual – enhances the ambiguity and controversy connected to these topics, closely connected to the assumption that no standards can be applied to a person. One proof of this is the uniqueness of our fingerprints.
People caught “in the hand” in a way not experienced before can also discover a particular form of freedom, acting as nerve impulses directing the hand – the body part in charge of caressing, hitting, holding, and touching.
DACTILOSCOPIA ROSA is a co-production with Naves Matadero in Madrid.
Artist
Marco Canevacci and Yena Young (Plastique Fantastique)
Curator
Mateo Feijóo
Plastique Fantastique Team
Harriet Collins
Photos
Alvaro Lopez del Cerro
Portrait Photo
Ximena y Sergio
Interior Design
Gandia Blasco
Image: © Plastique Fantastique
Photo: © Gandia Blasco
Photo: © Gandia Blasco
Photo: © Alvaro Lopez del Cerro
Photo: © Alvaro Lopez del Cerro
Photo: © Alvaro Lopez del Cerro
Photo: © Ximena y Sergio
Production on site. Photo: © Plastique Fantastique
Production on site. Photo: © Plastique Fantastique
